Unit 1 WH Vocabulary

Spread of cultural beliefs and social activities from one group of people to another

• Colombian Exchange

• Cultural Diffusion

• Mercantilism

• Treaty of Tordesillas

15th century until the end of the 18th century exploration emerged as a powerful factor in European culture and was the beginning of globalization.

• Colombian Exchange

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Age of Exploration/Discovery

(1371–1433 or 1435), was a Chinese mariner explorer, diplomat, fleet admiral and court eunuch during China's early Ming Dynasty.

• James Cook

• Francisco Pizzaro

• Zheng He

• Marco Polo

300 BC routes that provided the movement of armies, officials, and civilians, and the inland carriage of official communications and trade goods

• Treaty of Tordesillas

• Roman Roads

• Silk Roads

• Atlantic Slave Trade

An ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction originally through regions of Eurasis connecting the East Europe and northern Africa

• Silk Roads

• Cultural Diffusion

• Colombian Exchange

• Roman Roads

Written in 1494, divided the newly discovered lands in the Americas between Portugal and Spain

• Silk Road

• Colombian Exchange

• Mercantilism

• Treaty of Tordesillas

National economic policy designed to maximize the trade of a nation and, historically, to maximize the accumulation of gold and silver. It was dominant in modernized parts of Europe from the 16th to the 18th centuries.

• Atlantic Slave Trade

• Mercantilism

• Cultural Diffusion

• Colombian Exchange

Responsible for the early development of Portuguese exploration and maritime trade with other continents.

• Prince Henry the Navigator

• Zheng He

• Christopher Colombus

• Ferdinand Magellan

31 October 1451 – 20 May 1506) Explorer whose voyages and his efforts to establish settlements on the island of Hispaniola, initiated the permanent European colonization of the New World.

• Christopher Colombus

• Ferdinand Magellan

• Marco Polo

• James Cook

Italian merchant, explorer, and writer, who recorded his travels on the Silk Road.

 

• Franciso Pizzaro

• James Cook

• Marco Polo

• Ferdinand Magellan